Instapaper
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Description

Instapaper is the simplest way to save and store articles for reading: offline, on-the-go, anytime, anywhere, perfectly formatted.

Instapaper for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch provides a mobile-optimized text view that makes reading Internet content a clean and uncluttered experience. Instapaper also enhances the standard reading experience with features like text-to-speech, which can be controlled via the Apple Watch.

Instapaper has been inducted into the iPhone and iPad Hall of Fame, received Macworld Editor's Choice Award, and has also been featured in publications including Wired, TIME, Daring Fireball, and The Verge, among others.

Core Features:- Strip away all clutter and save the content of web pages into iOS-optimized formatting.- Read anywhere! No internet, no problem: access your articles on airplanes, subways, elevators, or Wi-Fi-only devices away from Internet connections. - Save to Instapaper from other iOS applications with one tap.

Additional Features:- Control every aspect of your reading experience with a variety of font, color themes, and spacing options. - Find that great quote you want to remember and share? Instapaper makes it easy to highlight text in any article.- Have your Instapaper articles narrated to you with text-to-speech. Just turn up the volume on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch and relax!- Control text-to-speech right from your Apple Watch. - Sort your list of articles by popularity, date, and article length.- Folders for easy organization.- Full-text search for articles in your account

What’s New

Version History

7.7

7.6.2

* Fix issue where URLs were not included in tweets using the Tweet Shot feature.

7.6.1

Oct 11, 2018

* Fixed text-to-speech issues where Samantha was used by default instead of Alex voice or region-specific voices.

7.6

Oct 2, 2018

* Make better use of entire screen for iPhone X devices.* Use Samantha voice as default for text-to-speech if Alex voice is not available.* Fix issue with scroll bar positioning on reader view.* Other minor fixes and improvements.

7.5.3

Aug 1, 2018

* Removed Apple Watch app* Minor fixes and improvements

7.5.2

Jan 23, 2018

* Homebar hidden on iPhone X when reading in fullscreen mode.* Fixed social logins for Facebook and Twitter.

7.5.1

Nov 21, 2017

* Fixed issue with search on iOS 10.* Fixed issue with creating a note on iPhone X.* Other minor fixes and improvements.

7.5

Nov 3, 2017

* iPhone X support.* Minor fixes and improvements.

7.4.1

Oct 10, 2017

* Fixed crash when saving an image from a highlight or text selection.* Fixed an issue with formatting for pagination.* Other minor fixes and improvements.

7.4

Sep 20, 2017

* Drop to save! With iPad multitasking on iOS 11, you can drag links from other apps and drop them into Instapaper to save. You can save directly to a folder by opening that folder in Instapaper and dropping links into the folder, too.* Drag to share with other apps. Also using iPad multitasking on iOS 11, you can drag to share articles, highlights, and links within articles to other apps.* Added support for iOS 11 password autofill.* Fixed long loading of articles with embedded videos under poor network conditions.* Fixes issue where swiping back to article list would sometimes result in loss of read position.* Other minor fixes and improvements.

7.3.3

7.3.2

Jan 5, 2017

* Updated app analytics.* Minor fixes and improvements.

7.3.1

Nov 29, 2016

* Fixed an occasional issue where the empty view appeared over articles.

7.3

Nov 1, 2016

Instapaper Premium is now available to all Instapaper users, free of charge. Instapaper Premium is the best way to experience all that Instapaper has to offer, and we're excited to open it up to everyone.

Before, some of our greatest features were limited to Instapaper Premium subscribers. Now that we're better resourced, we're able to offer everyone the best version of Instapaper.

For existing Instapaper Premium users, we’ll offer prorated refunds for your current subscription, and you’ll no longer be billed for Instapaper Premium. Thanks for your support throughout the years, we appreciate it.

All users will continue to have an ad-free Instapaper app experience.

Opening Instapaper Premium is something we’ve always wanted to do, and we’re thrilled to give everyone the very best Instapaper experience.

7.2

Sep 28, 2016

* We've completely re-written search from the ground up. Search is now located at top of the article list, rather than the side panel menu. Additionally, all users can locally search article titles. Full-text search across all articles is still a Premium-only feature.* Changed "Return to Position" prompt so it does not cover the title of the article when tapping the status bar to scroll to top.* Fixed blank Safari issue when opening links.

7.1.2

Apr 11, 2016

* Fixed issue with text-to-speech playback rates for Alex voice in iOS 9.3* If installed, Alex voice is now used for all English regions, not just United States.

7.1.1

Jan 14, 2016

* In-line video support! Videos within an article will now be shown, and articles with in-line videos will now appear in the Videos section* Improved margin handling for iPad Pro* Fixes styling of subscripts and superscripts in article text* Fixes issue where UI was shifted down when status bar was double height (eg. while in a call or navigating)* Fixes issue where HTML in title was rendered in the article body

7.1

Oct 29, 2015

* Added Quick Action support! You can now 3D Touch the Instapaper icon on your homescreen to get shortcuts into Instapaper. Your shortcuts can be customized in Settings.* Added 3D Touch support so links can now be previewed directly from the reading view.* Support for iPad Pro.* Resolved issues that caused Alex Voice to not play properly, Alex voice is now the default text-to-speech voice if it has been downloaded.* Dim image thumbnails in night mode.* Fixed issue that caused some images to be displayed on the wrong cells.* Other minor bug fixes and enhancements.

7.0

Sep 16, 2015

Instapaper 7

* Article rows now include image thumbnails! If images aren’t your thing, turn them off in Settings for the classic Instapaper look.

* Added support for iPad multitasking so you can run Instapaper alongside other apps.

* Apple’s new system font, San Francisco, is now an available font choice.

* Text-to-speech will automatically use the high-quality American-English Alex voice if it is downloaded and the article is in English.

* Picture-in-picture video is now supported for YouTube and Vimeo saves.

* Redesigned iPad grid and row cells for better multitasking support.

* The navigation menu now slides over the article list instead of appearing from under it.

6.4.1

Aug 11, 2015

* Updated Evernote API integration.* Minor bug fixes

6.4

Jun 4, 2015

Introducing Notes!

* Add your own comments to highlights or article text* Easily share your Notes to other services* Access your notes across all synced devices and on web at www.instapaper.com* You can now save TweetShot images directly to your camera roll* Increased maximum size of TweetShot images* Fixed issue in save extension that caused Instapaper to not show in some cases* Fixed issue with changing sender email address on iPad* Additional minor bug fixes

6.3

Apr 20, 2015

Apple Watch support! Experience a whole new way to use Instapaper by triggering text-to-speech for your articles directly from your Apple Watch. When you finish listening to the article, you can easily like, archive, organize, or delete the article using the force touch menu.

6.2

Mar 26, 2015

Instapaper 6.2 is all about speed and efficiency:

* Speed Reading! Breeze through articles quickly using speed reading while tracking the time you save across all of your articles.* Lightning fast saves! The Instapaper save extension has been further optimized for speed and efficiency.* Instant sync can be enabled in Settings to have new articles pushed directly to your device!* Tweet Shots: Share beautiful images of text selections or highlights to Twitter, and save space for your own thoughts!* Long press the archive button to delete articles.* Region-specific language detection for text-to-speech.* Fixed bug with handling App Store links from the in-app browser.* Fixed AirPlay streaming while the app is in the background.* Better styles for figure captions.* Many other lovely improvements!

6.1

Dec 4, 2014

* Redesigned save extension with ability to save directly to a folder and offline saving support.* Device hand off support: Start reading on one device, and pick up exactly where you left off on another device!* Unread Count can be enabled in settings to show a badge with the number of articles you have saved.* Several other improvements and bug fixes.

6.0.1

Oct 14, 2014

* Text-to-speech now detects the language of the article, and speaks the article in the correct language.* Full-text copy and mail options can now be enabled in Settings.* Sharing to Evernote saves full-text as the note.* Reintroduced native Pinboard sharing.* Fixed title detection when sharing to Pinner.* Fixed sharing from in-app browser.* Tilt scrolling tweaks.* Other minor changes and enhancements.

Ratings and Reviews

473 Ratings

Editors’ Notes

Save hundreds of web articles for easy offline reading.

Editors’ Notes

Save hundreds of web articles for easy offline reading.

joehutsko
,01/29/2018

Needs fixes many fixes - used to be one of my apps ever

Update after developer review: they’re aware of issues and working on fixes and improvements, so that ups it to 3 stars; happy to go 4 stars once the spacing issue is fixed with upper and lower borders on iPhone X in iBooks pagination mode, then 5 stars once they dim out the Home indicator. Thank you for listening, Instapaper folks. 🙌🏼📖📰👀

Update for 7.5.2 on Jan 23, 2018, which purportedly hides Home indicator when you’re in full screen mode, however, I just tried it, in full screen mode, after closing all apps and restarting, and the home indicator is still there no matter what I try. See below comments with hopes those will get fixed as well as they’re still sane after 7.5.2.

Previous: I’ve been a huge fan of Instantpaper for many many years, I love it, but one thing that’s always bugged me, is that there is no full justified text feature to make the margins on either side balance out like you can with Kindle, Nook, iBooks, etc. Also, the pagination feature to use iBooks like page turns on an iPhone 10 just doesn’t work properly, there’s a huge gap at the bottom of every page, while the top part of the screen and the text is way too close to the upper edge, I just need a simple fix, and maybe that will get fixed along with the lack of full justification, that would be so nice, that I would give it five stars again.

Developer Response
,01/29/2018

Sorry for any inconvenience, the home bar hiding works on fast pagination as expected but not iBooks due to some technical differences (which I'd be more than happy to outline the specifics of if you want, just let us know at support@help.instapaper.com). We should be able to introduce support for it for the iBooks pagination display in a future update. We're also working on a variety of pagination improvements for future releases and I've filed a request for justified text so we can keep it in consideration. Let me know if there's anything else. Cheers!

joehutsko
,01/29/2018

Needs fixes many fixes - used to be one of my apps ever

Update after developer review: they’re aware of issues and working on fixes and improvements, so that ups it to 3 stars; happy to go 4 stars once the spacing issue is fixed with upper and lower borders on iPhone X in iBooks pagination mode, then 5 stars once they dim out the Home indicator. Thank you for listening, Instapaper folks. 🙌🏼📖📰👀

Update for 7.5.2 on Jan 23, 2018, which purportedly hides Home indicator when you’re in full screen mode, however, I just tried it, in full screen mode, after closing all apps and restarting, and the home indicator is still there no matter what I try. See below comments with hopes those will get fixed as well as they’re still sane after 7.5.2.

Previous: I’ve been a huge fan of Instantpaper for many many years, I love it, but one thing that’s always bugged me, is that there is no full justified text feature to make the margins on either side balance out like you can with Kindle, Nook, iBooks, etc. Also, the pagination feature to use iBooks like page turns on an iPhone 10 just doesn’t work properly, there’s a huge gap at the bottom of every page, while the top part of the screen and the text is way too close to the upper edge, I just need a simple fix, and maybe that will get fixed along with the lack of full justification, that would be so nice, that I would give it five stars again.

Developer Response
,01/29/2018

Sorry for any inconvenience, the home bar hiding works on fast pagination as expected but not iBooks due to some technical differences (which I'd be more than happy to outline the specifics of if you want, just let us know at support@help.instapaper.com). We should be able to introduce support for it for the iBooks pagination display in a future update. We're also working on a variety of pagination improvements for future releases and I've filed a request for justified text so we can keep it in consideration. Let me know if there's anything else. Cheers!

DO NOT USE 67899
,12/31/2017

Best App Ever.

This is my most favorite app of all time. I read a lot of articles from news sites and blogs. Short form, long form, tech, opinion, basically everything and anything. Instapaper is a great place for me to keep all my favorite articles that I want to read now or later without all the ads and excess. Just the message and that’s it. You can even have Instapaper speed read the articles for you if you’re into that sort of thing, insert notes anywhere into the article, highlight a word and get a definition and/or a Wikipedia snippet right there in the article, there’s dark/light themes, text for people who have dyslexia, change the font by slider to whatever size you want, you can even copy and paste the stripped text wherever you want. Instapaper is an app that you will appreciate so much you’ll be asking where you can donate money to keep it alive forever. It’s the ultimate readers Swiss Army knife.

DO NOT USE 67899
,12/31/2017

Best App Ever.

This is my most favorite app of all time. I read a lot of articles from news sites and blogs. Short form, long form, tech, opinion, basically everything and anything. Instapaper is a great place for me to keep all my favorite articles that I want to read now or later without all the ads and excess. Just the message and that’s it. You can even have Instapaper speed read the articles for you if you’re into that sort of thing, insert notes anywhere into the article, highlight a word and get a definition and/or a Wikipedia snippet right there in the article, there’s dark/light themes, text for people who have dyslexia, change the font by slider to whatever size you want, you can even copy and paste the stripped text wherever you want. Instapaper is an app that you will appreciate so much you’ll be asking where you can donate money to keep it alive forever. It’s the ultimate readers Swiss Army knife.